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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Being able to understand if supply expected from Europe needs to be re-routed and sourced from Asia or South America is important when entire channels become unavailable. One US-based ToolsGroup manufacturing customer sources parts from several Chinese and Italian suppliers.

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Air Freight Rates Peak, Ocean Rates Slowly Sink: Freight Rate Update W50

Freightos

FIGURE 1: LAG ON 2016 RATES BY TRADE LANE (Source: Freightos International Freight Index). Europe-South America Atlantic. Europe-South America Pacific. Four weeks ago, soon after Europe’s air congestion began, China-Europe rates started catching up with last year’s levels (although they still lag 12% behind).

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Driving domestic production of critical materials and rare earth elements

Resilinc

Not only are these minerals necessary for a wide range of products and industrial processes, they are also essential for a transition to low-carbon energy sources (along with rare earth elements). manufacturers decided to source REEs from foreign countries. On March 31, President Biden ordered the U.S. Warning that the U.S.

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Re-globalization, Trucks that Talk, and a True Pan-American Highway

Resilinc

What’s going on is a re-balancing … An imbalance was created, one that leaned too heavily on China and other Asian countries, because sourcing was driven by one priority: reducing labor costs.” Transportation investments are also needed to accomplish greater trading between North and South America.

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Is It Time to Concentrate on Climate Adaptation?

Enterra Insights

South America would say goodbye to cities like Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. East notes, “Sustainability analytics requires a lot of data from many different sources. Some of that data already exists and is standardized, while other data is coming from new sources with no established standards.”

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U.S. West Coast Dockworkers Enacting Multi-Day Job Actions

Supply Chain Matters

But shipping industry sources now indicate that negotiations deteriorated last week over the scope of expected dockworker wage increases. Business media reports had indicated in early May that progress was made on issues related to health benefits and other items including areas of automation, with a labor agreement in view for this month.

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The Endless Complexities of the Ocean side of Supply Chains

SCMDOJO

In total, rollover rates in transshipment ports were up across every region except for South America, one of the smallest for global and regional transshipment activities. Transshipment rollovers in South America declined by 3% from 46% to 43% year-on-year. Source: project44 Monthly report.